Providence crosses state lines for a living. Three in four of the carriers with a city address are registered for interstate work, and the largest fleet among them reports more than 2,200 power units. The harbor at ProvPort and the racks across the river in East Providence are the city's part of the freight map.
So the Providence semi truck is a sleeper that works the lanes out of the state, and beside it a car hauler loading at ProvPort, a moving van, a tanker off East Providence, a garbage truck or a roll-off, a tandem dump truck out of the Cranston quarry, a steel hauler.
One title counter, in Cranston
Rhode Island titles centrally: a duplicate title can only be applied for at the DMV's Research and Title Office at 600 New London Avenue in Cranston, on the DMV's own forms, so a lost title means one trip to that counter or the mail, and the title transfer runs through the same office. The lien and the total-loss threshold, which keeps being amended, are on the Rhode Island page.
A Providence truck has spent its winters on salted roads near salt water and shows it in the frame rails, the crossmembers, the brake lines and the cab corners. Photograph those with the cab, the engine and the body, and tell us the work it did.
The federal numbers on I-95, and a smoke test on everything
Rhode Island holds to the federal 80,000 pounds on I-95 and inspects every heavy diesel for smoke at the roadside, and the Rhode Island page has the opacity rule. Providence's own fact is ten bridges with a load posting and one just under fourteen feet, where Smithfield Avenue crosses I-95. Whether the truck would pass the next smoke test is a fact to tell us, not a reason not to write.
Tell us whether the truck is down by ProvPort, over in Cranston or up by Valley Falls, send the photos and a photo of the title, and say whether we collect it, buy it where it stands or see you at our yard.